Haitian elites could not openly support the religion. The Catholic Church based in Rome forced Haiti to adopt Roman Catholicism as its official religion. Over the years, several anti-Voodoo ...

The mixture of gods and goddesses and Catholic saints is an integral part of Haitian life - one common saying is that Haitians are 70% Catholic, 30% Protestant, and 100% voodoo. "We've always been the ...

Thousands of Haitian voodoo believers make the trek to the Plaine du Nord each ... Throughout the month of July there are voodoo ceremonies and pilgrimages all over Haiti. Some of the believers jump ...

Voodoo was brought to Haiti by African slaves and is a mainstay of the country's culture. It was banned during French colonial rule and only recognized as an official religion by the Haitian ...

While the ban applies to Haitian nationals, some Haitian Americans are speaking out about its broader implications.

When author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ... the heart of voodoo culture. She learned about the loa, or gods, whose spirits animated Haitian life ...

Haiti’s government says the country ... the child,” RNDDH said in a report seen by CNN. Voodoo is widely practiced in parts of Haitian society. “On Friday, December 6, Micanor shot and ...

The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital ... that pushed the death toll from Haiti's spiraling security crisis to ...

On Jan. 12, 2010, the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince ... By the time that Seabrook published his "firsthand account of voodoo in Haiti," the othering of Haiti, and its Afrocentric vodou ...

A leading Haitian human rights group described ... including animals and plants. Brought to Haiti by slaves, Voodoo, also spelled Vodou by scholars and followers, is largely misunderstood in ...

For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and ...